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  • “… with the whole world full of fools, there is none who thinks himself one, or even suspects it.”  Gracian #201 George Rebane The news comes pouring in daily of Obamacare’s manifest incorrigible faults and the stream of palliative executive orders designed to rescue it.  The longstanding cases of this administration’s corruption and scandals are…

  • George Rebane AP reports (here) that Jesse Jackson, one of the leading plantation keepers in the nation, has found a new windmill to joust from his public panderer podium.  He has discovered that high tech companies don’t have enough blacks and Hispanics developing all that “inclusive technology” (it’s tough to make this up).  He can’t…

  • George Rebane By any measure America would be seen as clinically insane by an alien observer arriving on earth.  The insanity is marbled in at all levels of society starting from the highest levels of government to the dishwasher in a small town hotel.  But the real problem is that about a third of our…

  • [In my 26feb14 post on 'The Rights of Nature' I invited Ms Robin Milam of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature to respond.  She has kindly submitted the following response to the points I raised, and expanded on a number of other issues that are salient to incorporating the rights of nature into…

  • George Rebane Yes, today there is a small but vociferous cadre of well-meaning people who believe that trees, bushes, swamps, creeks, hills, and even rocks have rights that have been overlooked and must now be recognized.  They call themselves The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) and about sixty of them gathered last…

  • George Rebane Two major factors are now in the forefront of impending social upheavals in America – the growing economic destruction wrought by Obamacare and the accelerating surge of systemic unemployment.  And there is little help on the way because the polarized sides have no middle ground in which to search for solutions.  To even…

  • O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!  Robert Burns George Rebane RR reader and indefatigable champion of all things progressive, Mr Ben Emery, posted a link under ‘So You Wanna College Degree?’ to a video that he advises is the progressives’ viewpoint on the dumbing down of…

  • George Rebane I was going to report on the just released results from the Index of Economic Freedom that celebrates its 20th year.  In it the dire news is that the US has dropped out of the top 10 of the 186 countries rated – we are now 12th and continuing to go down (more…

  • George Rebane Time again to put some nasty gossip to rest about the President and his religion.  I received an email from a correspondent citing a 29dec13 piece in the NYT about how “Mr. Obama’s faith is a more complicated, more private, and perhaps … a more inclusive affair.”  Well, we know that it’s a…

  • George Rebane News Item – Next year commercial talk radio of the liberal bent is slated to completely collapse in the remaining major media markets of New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  The problem is that the audiences for such content are miniscule and diminishing.  Leftwing talk radio survives on non-profit outlets such…